Category: On The Writing Life
Dean Wesley Smith has a great article up on one of the traps a bunch of writers fall into: believing that, once they’d made a couple of sales, they know everything they need to know to keep selling. Uh ….
There’s this great line Faye Dunaway has in Bonnie and Clyde: “We rob banks.” (If you’ve never seen the movie, do. In another incarnation, I studied and wrote articles about film and I still think it must be glorious to…
Stephen King does a fabulous review of a new Raymond Carver biography and volume of Carver’s stores, restored after being eviscerated by Esquire‘s then-editor, Gordon Lish. (This isn’t the first time this issue has come up either; the NYT has…
Coming up with a title for this post was . . . well, hard and that’s probably a tribute to the fact that I’m in the HARD part of my latest book–which translates to the initial glow has faded, that…
Just going to show that no time is wasted . . . I’m driving, fretting that I’m not writing instead, and then I hear a story on NPR. The story is a follow-up to an article I read the week before–that…
And I’m not talking about coffee . . . This week, I began work on my newest YA in earnest. Unfortunately, I missed a day so today, I’m on the job, working to make my goals for the week. Kind…